07/20/2026
This isn't rock. It's — hand-carved to look like the East Tennessee hillside it holds back. 🔊 Sound on.
Along Highway 33 in Maynardville, Tennessee, Boulderscape® turned two highway retaining walls into natural rock formations you'd swear were always there.
For TDOT's CNW068 walls, the goal was long-term structural performance that still belonged in the folded shale country of East Tennessee. The solution: high-performance structural shotcrete beneath a hand-sculpted architectural shotcrete finish engineered to disappear into the native geology.
In a single system, our crew placed:
• 8″ structural shotcrete section
• 1–3″ hand-carved architectural relief
• 22,364 sq ft of reinforced wall surface
Every square foot was hand-carved into our Weathered Shale finish and custom-stained on site to match the surrounding rock — structural engineering and stone artistry in the same pass.
Project Highlights
• Boulderscape Finish: Weathered Shale
• Structures: CNW068 Retaining Walls 1 & 2, Highway 33
• Structural Section: 8″ structural shotcrete
• Architectural Relief: 1–3″ hand-carved
• Custom hand-staining to match East Tennessee rock
At Boulderscape, shotcrete isn't just a structural solution — it's a precision tool for making infrastructure look like it grew there.
â–¶ Watch the full project: https://boulderscape.com/maynardville-highway-33
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BOULDERSCAPE® — Structural & Architectural Shotcrete
Retaining Nature. Sustaining Beauty. Since 1984.
Steven Jimenez · Senior V.P., Commercial Sales
(949) 661-5087 · [email protected] · www.boulderscape.com